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Relation between device, device driver, device file and mounted point

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Mar 15, 20262754 views
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How are devices, device drivers, device files and mounted points related in Linux (I am a beginning user of Ubuntu)? My understanding about them is quite vague; I hope there will be some clear explanation to help me get the bigger picture.

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In the unix philosophy everything is in effect a text file file in the directory hierarchy, and everything here is really names for various 'files' in that hierarchy A device is any physical hardware or virtual device (like dev/null) that can be use…

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